The Stand by Stephen King - 2020

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2020. New. Barnes & Noble Classic Edition. In publisher's shrinkwrap. A re-issue of Stephen King's 1978 classic. The unread, pristine book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp corners, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings. Bound in bonded leather, distinctive gilt edging, decorative endpapers, and a colorful ribbon bookmark. Gilt to page edges is bright, unmarred, and Fine. Illustrations by distinguished comics and graphic novel artist Bernie Wrightson. Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published.

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A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world's population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge—Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious "Dark Man," who delights in chaos and violence. As the dark man and the peaceful woman gather power, the survivors will have to choose between them—and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity.